My friend John and I made a trip up to Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula last week hoping to find a couple birds John has never before seen. After a 4 a.m. departure, we arrived at the Whitefish Point parking lot about 7:30 and headed for the point itself, where the fall waterbird counter was already onsite, tracking the autumn migration as loons, grebes, and ducks streamed eastward toward...